Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-03-28
NJ e DICA l. IN III A l. A II o N
Combined with Constitutional Remedies.

4 lUh IhEAlMENl Vt lhI D1oEAOES
" of the respiratory passages consists in
he employment of Medical Inhalation for
its direct effects on the diseased organs;
and, at the same time, adopting such hy-
gienic measures and administering such
fectually purify the blood. give tone to
the nervous system, and build up and
strengthen the general constitution. In
other words. we employ combined local
What is MEDICAL Inhalation? Before
stating briefly what Medical Inhalation
is, we propose, in as few words as possible,
to state clearly what 1t Is not.
Medical Inhalation is not a cure-all, a
nostrum, or a panacea. 1t is not a specific
remedy for any disease. 1t is not quack
medicine, or advertised to cure any or all
the ills that flesh is heir to, an intended to
fill the pockets of its proprietors 1t is mo-
to its pnssessOr without the Intervention Of
sense or judgment. Medical Inhalation is
none of these things.
Medical Inhalation is simply aud solely
method of taking medicines by fnhaling or
breathing them into the lungs instead of
swallowing them into the stomach. By In
hslatiOn, the proper medicines are applied
directly to the seat of the disease, in the
every reasoning person how peculiarly ap.
plIcable Inha alton is in the disorders of
the organs named. If you have scalded or
burned the surface of the body, or wounded
any llu1D OE mcIuucIs yOu w hOt bW dAlOW
the remedy intended to heal the disor-
ganized tissue ON the contrary, yon apply
1t directly to the seat of the wound or in
jury Why. then. when suffering from ca
ficted wi b ulceratio of the lungs, should
you rely on medicines taken into the
stomach?
Medical Inhalation not only applies the
proper healing remedies to the seat of the
disease, but It applies the remedy in the
gaseous or vapOrOus form, in which form,
as is veil known, medicines act most power.
fully How much greater. for example, is
the effect of drachm OF chloroform, when
inhaled or breathed, than many times the
quantity when swallowed into the stomach.
The same il true of chlorine, OF iodine. and
of many other substances By inhalation
the medicine is not poured into the stomach
and thence sent wandering through the
system in search of a malady which may be
mainly or entirely a local one; but by this
method the proper remedy Is applied di-
recily to the diseased organ. Who, after
studyi the anotomy of the lungs can
doubt that Inflammation and liberation of
the air-tubes and air-cells, the direct appli-
cation of the healing medicine by inhala.
tion to the diseased p rts, is the correct and
rational method of treatment? Who. on
the other hand, canGbe so irrational as to
believe that the proper and direct way to
reach the diseased surfaces OF the air
passages in this case, is by the way OF the
sol0gy us 1nss ,ns
of the nose, throat and lungs, is only a
slightly modified form of the same ttructure
as that which covers the external surface
of the body. Why, then, should local treat
ment be proper and necessary for 1nham-
nations, congestions and ulcerations OF the
one and not be equally SO in the case of the
other?
Our experience and success in treating
diseases of the nose, throat and lungs. de-
monstrates, beyond all question, that the
true scientific treatment OF these diseases is
that treatment which combines the local
effects of medical inhalation with the con-
given in the usual way by the stomach.
One or both methods must be adopted as
the circumstances demand, and such RENE
dies must be employed as the experience
and judgment of the physician have proved
to be proper in each particular case.
Medical Advocates OF Inhalation.
Physicians who were educated twenty
years ago or more, and who have not Kept
up with the times in the advance in medi-
Cal science, have very little idea of the great
importance all leading writers now give to
Medical Inhalation in the treatment OF pull
monary diseases To such an extent Is this
true that no patient should iptrust his case
to auy physician who is not well prepared
and tn roughly equipped with everything
necessary for the administering OF the
proper remedies by the method of inhaia-
The numerous cures effected by inhala-
lation in cases seemingly past all help, and
the uniform success attending its use IN
diseases of the respiratory organs, rende,s 8
it obligatory on every honest physician 10
of the Inhalation. or, If that is
not possible, he is at least bound to decline
to treat such cases.
Among the most eminent physicians of
the age VIII are fully awakened to the value
of Medical Inhalation in these diseases are
the following:
The ceie brated DR.. Burdon Saunierson;
DR.. La Roche, OF the Paris Academy OF
Medicine; Or. Frederica Lang ghGsus, G, OF bsi- sir
Archibald Dickson, of Edinburgh, Scotland
DR.. Eichler, DR.. Cameron. DR.. Gurdon BUCK,
Prot. Albert Lehert, the celebrated ".
Hughngs Jackson the venerable sT RcD
Wells. DR.. Hilton Flaggs, Dr.. G. r. Wood,
Drs: Fritsch and Hitzig DR. Fothergill, DR..
Richard Thompson, DR.: K Carpenter
Drs. Anstie. Bali, Fuller Lancers;aux' Gals;ax'
Fenwick, and many others.
With scarcely single exception every
medical authority OF eminence recognizes
the wonderful potency of this new method,
are certain to be thoroughly educated
At present 1t is only few physi-
clans here and there who have made 'Dis-
eases of Respiration" a life study III t are
resources of Medical Inhalation in the cure
of these diseases.
The Durability Of Consumption.
For five years the celebrated Or. I. H
Bennett waa pathologist to the Ayai In-
frmary of Edinburgh, and In his great
work on Consumption" he makes the fol-
lowing statement
''During this period l made upwards of
2OOo post-mortem examinations of persons
dying from various diseases, and was
meeting with cases In which
found cavities in the lungs from cOnsump
ton, which had evidently healed up or
cicatIiz ed years before the death OF the
subject. Nature did not seem to have been
in restoring the wasted lung
substance, but the cavities were dried up,
the progress of the disease ARE sted. and
the subject lived for years, with diminished
lung power 1t is true, but otherwise In good
health"